Archive for June, 2008

Yankee fan needs help

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

I'm traveling to NY/NJ tomorrow for a customer meeting on Tuesday. It will be my first time in New York since a Cub Scout trip to see the Yankees and Angels when I was 8 years old. With this being the final year of the Stadium before the new facility ...

Make you cry for your Mommy

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I finished up my month long CrossFit boot camp this morning with a grand finale workout called Filthy 50. It should have been called "I'm going to kick your ass and make you cry for your mommy". At the point I was doing Burpees I told Matt that it was ...

I really dropped the ball today

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I don't usually write blog posts in the middle of my work day, but I need some self-therapy. Get ready for a lot of 'I's. I was given an assignment by a person a couple of rungs up my management ladder at the end of last week.  I ...

Supplier View mid-June update

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

I was in Bryan, TX today meeting with Downtown Cartel. We caught up on the development status, clarified on some use cases and requirements , and sat down for a good dinner at Square One Bistro. One of the side benefits of working with smart guys who you can actually ...

What do you mean you found a bug?

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

I was reading on Webmonkey about a defect that was found in what should have been the last release candidate before Firefox 3 is released. Reading between the lines it appears that this was found towards the end of testing. Mozilla hasn't formally announced a release date for FF3 but ...

A note to myself from the future

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Dear David, It's tough running your own company sometimes isn't it? Remember those days at BigCo? There was lots of gravy but it was some pretty bland gravy wasn't it? Remember what you read in that Founders at Work interview with Brewster Kahle? Kahle: Having your own company means that its much ...

A really chill Saturday

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

I'm just taking it easy today. Work at HP was pretty intense this past week with lots of activity around a release occurring this weekend and some early indications of what the EDS acquisition will mean to my organization. I didn't get much done on Supplier View, but did continue ...